Loop and stem dynamics during RNA hairpin folding and unfolding

RNA

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2427-2434

  Sarkar, Krishnarjun ^a   Nguyen, Duc A ^a,d   Gruebele, Martin ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^d VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

2 Aminopurine; Energy landscape; Molecular dynamics simulation; Temperature jump

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; RNA;

ARTICLE; DENATURATION; ENERGY; FLUORESCENCE; KINETICS; LASER; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SIMULATION; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

2-AMINOPURINE; FLUORESCENCE; KINETICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEIC ACID DENATURATION; RNA; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 78649649131     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.2253310     Document Type: Article

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